HT1451 I am extremely frustrated with iTunes. Can you help?

Hi. I've been a casual user of iTunes for several years. Now I'm moving and downsizing; I have to reduce a 4,000 CD collection to 1,000, and I want to put a lot of the material onto iTunes. But I'm so frustrated that I'm ready to walk away - or invest in a better alternative.
I've looked for advice online; it refers to an edit button that I cannot find inthe version of iTunes that I downloaded the other day.
My library is virtually all classical music and opera. I want to preserve the superior bitrate of the CDs, because sound quality is of primary importance for me. But how do I do that? Where's the edit button?
Equally frustrating is the fact that iTunes breaks material with multiple artists into multiple "albums". What is up with that? It makes it impossible to listen to. I just transferred a three-disc opera, and ended up with a dozen different files. This is insane - but, again, there doesn't seem to be an edit button to fix it.
Can someone help me figure this out, please? It scares the cats when I shriek at my computer, but it's getting harder to avoid losing it when all this work turns out to be a waste of time.
If it helps, I have a Windows 7 computer.
Thank you!

sarah bryan wrote:
More than this, why do they have to make it so near-impossible to find all these options? I clicked on everything that showed up on the screen - EXCEPT the almost-invisible triangle in the upper-left-hand corner.
Perhaps the new "steamlined" look has left you at sea...
The main differences between iTunes 11 and earlier versions are the loss of coverflow and ability to have multiple windows open. Other familiar features have been hidden but can be revealed...
You can restore much of the look & feel of iTunes 10.7 with these shortcuts:
ALT to temporarily display the menu bar
CTRL+B to show or hide the menu bar
CTRL+S to show or hide the sidebar
CTRL+/ to show or hide the status bar (won't hide for me on Win XP)
Click the magnifying glass top right and untick Search Entire Library to restore the old search behaviour
Use View > Hide <Media Kind> in the cloud or Edit > Preferences > Store and untick Show iTunes in the cloud purchases to hide the cloud items. The second method eliminates the cloud status column (and may let iTunes start up more quickly)
If you don't like having different coloured background & text in the Album (Grid) view use Edit > Preferences > General and untick Use custom colours for open albums, movies, etc.
Use Edit > Preferences > Show list views for all media to do just that
From iTunes 11.0.3 you can enable artwork in the Songs view from View > Show View Options (CTRL+J) making it more like the old Album List view
View > Show View Options (CTRL+J) also contains options to change the sorting of grid based views
tt2

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